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Single Dad Illustrates What It’s Like To Raise A Child, And It’ll Melt Your Heart (38 Pics)

Forgive me for the cliché, but children do grow up so fast. And parents usually document their precious moments by taking pictures or shooting video, but one single dad from Taiwan has his own method of making sure he remembers what it's like raising his boy.

To capture the joys and difficulties of parenting he faces every day, Lan Shengjie (aka BLUE) is illustrating them. "I have been working as a freelance artist since 1999," BLUE told Bored Panda. "I started this series after right after my child was born in 2014." Recently, Sharp Point Press has even published it.

"When you have a kid, a lot of things happen unexpectedly. However, as I started drawing the surprising moments we shared, I didn't think they would get such a huge positive response."

BLUE said he's usually rushing through the illustrations since he's always taking care of his boy. "I hope that my child can grow up in a safe and healthy environment," he added. "I worry about him becoming a hooligan or anything else that can go wrong along the way. That's why I always try to accompany him as he's growing up and help him when I can."

this terrifies me. I was carrying my baby niece like this one fine day but then it decided to storm. it's a really scary when you felt the instinct to run quickly to shelter but you don't want to shake the baby too much. I never got the courage to carry another baby anymore, I don't want to cause them any hurt.

Finally. A comic series that shows the beauty and wholesomeness of having children and not those cliche ones which constantly whine and make parenting looks undesirable. This is honestly beautiful and the art is just :')

This one doesn’t exactly whine, but it makes parenting look undesirable too. The snot sucking thing? The mind control thing? Stepping on LEGO, cleaning up messes, diaper changing, being rude to a waiter. He doesn’t paint a nice picture of it, he shows reality. The drawings are well done though!

They're done sympathetically for the dad, because ALL little children do at least some of those things, but the dad is shown as being so loving to the little one. He still adores being a parent, it's very obvious, even if it can be hard at times. The dad is shown as learning what all new parents learn about some of the things little kids do that can be momentarily awkward of painful, but you learn to live with them and, later on, laugh at them, even with the child when they grow up!

Finally. A comic series that shows the beauty and wholesomeness of having children and not those cliche ones which constantly whine and make parenting looks undesirable. This is honestly beautiful and the art is just :')

This one doesn’t exactly whine, but it makes parenting look undesirable too. The snot sucking thing? The mind control thing? Stepping on LEGO, cleaning up messes, diaper changing, being rude to a waiter. He doesn’t paint a nice picture of it, he shows reality. The drawings are well done though!

They're done sympathetically for the dad, because ALL little children do at least some of those things, but the dad is shown as being so loving to the little one. He still adores being a parent, it's very obvious, even if it can be hard at times. The dad is shown as learning what all new parents learn about some of the things little kids do that can be momentarily awkward of painful, but you learn to live with them and, later on, laugh at them, even with the child when they grow up!